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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9252503" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I mean, when I've been playing or attempting to play it on and off for something like five years, yes, I do feel relatively qualified to say things.And when those experiences have almost universally pointed in a single direction, consistently, despite my every effort to alter or address it, yes, I do start to think that there's something going on beyond &quot;ooh, bad luck with that particular DM/group.&quot;I guess? Like I said, I don't have a gaming group (that I can play in, I mean.) If I did, I almost certainly wouldn't be choosing to play 5e unless multiple friends specifically requested my presence.I have not played a published campaign with 5e, no. Most things I heard about the early ones (like Phandelver) made me have zero interest in seeking such things out. Often, those running published campaigns put a ton of (what I consider) draconian limits on the game which, to me, are major red flags, so there's a soft avoidance there. (That is, I'm not against running published campaigns--I would love to find a group wanting to run Zeitgeist in the original 4th edition version--but I have found that people posting that they want to run a published campaign have a strong tendency to want a huge amount of control over what people play...up to and including prewritten character sheets, which are a hard no from me.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9252503, member: 6790260"] I mean, when I've been playing or attempting to play it on and off for something like five years, yes, I do feel relatively qualified to say things. And when those experiences have almost universally pointed in a single direction, consistently, despite my every effort to alter or address it, yes, I do start to think that there's something going on beyond "ooh, bad luck with that particular DM/group." I guess? Like I said, I don't have a gaming group (that I can [I]play[/I] in, I mean.) If I did, I almost certainly wouldn't be choosing to play 5e unless multiple friends specifically requested my presence. I have not played a published campaign with 5e, no. Most things I heard about the early ones (like Phandelver) made me have zero interest in seeking such things out. Often, those running published campaigns put a ton of (what I consider) draconian limits on the game which, to me, are major red flags, so there's a soft avoidance there. (That is, I'm not against running published campaigns--I would [I]love[/I] to find a group wanting to run Zeitgeist in the original 4th edition version--but I have found that people posting that they want to run a published campaign have a strong tendency to want a huge amount of control over what people play...up to and including prewritten character sheets, which are a [I]hard[/I] no from me.) [/QUOTE]

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